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America’s lost and found perspective on Vietnam

By Ethan Andrews The recently released Ken Burns and Lyn Novick Vietnam PBS series adds to the deep catalog from these American masters of the exhaustive-topic documentary and trick-bag of revealing pans and reverse zooms. The latter—a set of camera techniques that animate a still photo or gradually reveal its… SEE MORE

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’Ben’s Story’ personifies Maine’s changing fisheries

The stories of Maine fishermen have become an increasingly popular marketing tool in promoting native seafood. Increasingly, fishermen are offering lobster boat tours, where passengers can see trap-hauling demonstrations. The Maine Lobster Trail navigates fishing villages and lobster shacks. The Maine Oyster Trail is gaining cachet. All of that adds… SEE MORE

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Deer Isle native finds career in young adult, children’s literature

Anica Mrose Rissi is an accidental writer. Growing up on Deer Isle, she moved to the bigger world while attending Yale University in New Haven, Conn., then moved on to New York City, where she had vague thoughts of finding a job in philanthropy. Instead, she landed a job—by accident—as… SEE MORE

The new pavilion at the Isle au Haut Cooperative Store

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Update from Isle au Haut: store is thriving again

By Rachel Harris The board of directors of the Isle au Haut Cooperative Store wants readers to know about our latest community developments. We just completed our first year hosting the Lobster Lady food truck business, which served lunch on the store property. The arrangement benefited both businesses and, together,… SEE MORE

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Monhegan’s music man brings live performance, film, art shows

Two worlds loom large in Dylan Metrano’s life—music and Monhegan Island. A native of Newburyport, Mass., Metrano, 42, has been visiting Monhegan every summer since he was 7 years old. Twenty years ago, he began working summers at the Monhegan House, then, in 2007, began working summers at the Island… SEE MORE

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To know, but not possess an island

Where Edges Don’t Hold: A Small Island Miscellany By Christina Marsden Gillis; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2017 In her introduction to this collection, Christina Gillis notes that in organizing Where Edges Don’t Hold: A Small Island Miscellany, she had in mind readers who identify “with the emerging field of Island… SEE MORE

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More rumination on ‘imperfect love’

Elizabeth Strout has followed her last novel, My Name is Lucy Barton, with a new book that continues the story. Anything is Possible isn’t only about Lucy and her family, but includes characters we were introduced to previously, and hometown Amgash, Illinois, with its fields of corn and soybeans. We… SEE MORE

Night sky from Cadillac Mountain with the Cranberry Isles in view.

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Star Party on Cadillac Mountain highlights Annual Acadia Night Sky Festival

The Star Party on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23, and continues through 11 p.m. A free “Shuttle to the Stars” departing from Mount Desert Island High School will be offered to carry people to the summit. Participants are invited to drop in at any time… SEE MORE

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The natural accuracy of Kristen Lindquist’s poetry

Tourists in the Known World: New and Selected Poems By Kristen Lindquist; Megunticook Press, Camden The ocean is unsayable, like a lot of the natural world. The night sky is unsayable. The energy in a seed. The sacrality of a maple leaf. The full moon. The mind of snow. The… SEE MORE

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The tides as one step away from God

Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean By Jonathan White 2017: Trinity University Press Like the tides themselves, this book literally covers the earth. Author Jonathan White gets us started with a dramatic personal story: accidentally grounding his schooner in 1990 in Kalinin Bay, Alaska, in 40-knot winds at… SEE MORE